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Prison credits – may reduce the time that you have to doGood time credits – depends if you’re on a paroleable or non-paroleable offense. when you behave yourself you get more credits served than you actually servedFor a paroleable offense = 20 days for every 30 days that you serve incentive to behave yourself.For non-paroleable offense = 3 days for every 30 days that you serveMurderers cannot get good time creditsWork credits – job within the department of corrections and credit with your sentence with every 2 days that you work you get an extra day (worked 3 days. These can be for fittedNo parole offense – max you can get is 6 days a month for work creditsEducation credits – only apply to get your GED. For every 2 days you’re enrolled in the GED program they give you one day of credit.Non parolees are capped at 6 days per monthNot available to violent criminals – in on a violent offenseParoleable offense – max you can get is 180 days a year for work and education creditsNon paroleable offenses – max you can get is 72 days a year for work and education creditsParties to a Crime – sometimes one person commits a crime and sometimes several people are involved in that criminal activity. Some are more culpable than others.Principles – the person who actually does the crime or they aid and abed that crime – help it to be carried out. Actually present or standing right there or constructively present (not there but helping out – ex. Get away driver).Accomplice – someone who has a duty to stop a crime and doesn’t do it. Giving the ride is known as an accomplice (they are helping you do it). “the hand of one is the hand of all” = if you’re in on a crime and help someone to help carry out the crime then you are all equally involved.Accessories – someone who helps the crime but don’t actually commit the crime and they may be considered less culpable.Accessory Before The Fact – might provide you with a weapon but didn’t know you were going to commit a crime with it. But you should have know not to give the weapon (columbine example)Accessory After The Fact – you didn’t even know that a crime was going to happen, didn’t help it, but then found out about it and didn’t do anything about it.American Legal History – when SC was established, we adapted the common law (because we didn’t have enough laws made yet). It was pretty brutal, English law was extremely harsh. Example – not believing in god is the death penalty. If you have sex out of marriage you will be forced to marry her. Blasphemy is 3 years of lock down and giving up your civil rights. Bastardy (having a child out of wedlock) the female gets public whipping of 39 lashes and the male 31 lashes.Pennsylvania came up with the idea to build a penitentiaryEastern State Penitentiary – gently bring you back to god and it will prevent you from committing more crimes. The cells were shaped like a chapel for 2 reasons: 1) difficult to climb out of a slanted wall 2) idea is to make you look up to god. It was a silent system – inmates couldn’t speak to each other, to the guards or see each other.When they brought a new inmate in, they would put a bag over your head so you didn’t see anyone or not recognize anyone. They didn’t want you to go find each other on the street and build a criminal community. Some would do shoe repair and show them how to do it without speaking to them. One man per cell. Going to spend time in solitude and get your life back together.SC our laws were much more harsh and not concerned about you getting back to god. Forgery was a hanging. Also forced labor in prison. (cruel and unusual punishment for chain gangs). Punishments eventually began more proportionate to the crime (proportionality). Penalty options if you’re found by a guilty plea: fine, (not restitution, you pay to the court and they keep it) it is supposed to be enough to hurt you. If you cant pay there is no debt prison but if they find out you lied and can pay then you can go to jail. Might be forfeitedProperty that is used in criminal activity or is derived from the profits criminal activity, can be forfeited and the government can take it. (ex. Use drug money to buy a house). You borrow your moms car and have drugs in it and they find it, they can take it unless they can prove she innocently owned the car. Innocent owner is very difficult to prove.Can be ordered to may restitution – money paid to the victim to compensate for their loss (ex. Busted their face and they need surgery). Sometimes you’re required to pay restitution while you’re on probation.Court might order public service work (go volunteer somewhere). Can also order probation – actually get time to serve but then the judge takes it back (sentenced to 3 years but reversed it and get probation instead).Incarceration – can serve weekend time (allow you to be free during the week). Not so common anymore. Might be a medium or maximum security prison – might be relatively lax. The prisons are extremely overcrowded, and not uncommon to sleep on the floor with dirt and urine.You might get a youthful offender sentence (youthful offender act YOA) you get a YOA sentence. – you’re found guilty of a crime and it carries up to 20 years and maybe a minimum of 10 years. The judge can find you guilty but not give you that sentence, which is up to 6 years. Have to be under the age of 21 and can only ever get one of them.When you get a sentence, and convicted of multiple crimes, they can be concurrent (serve all at the same time/ if you get 10, 5, and 2, probably will only serve the 10) or consecutive (serve them all right after the other). If the judge doesn’t say which one, it is concurrent.CRJU 314 1nd Edition Lecture 15Outline of Last Lecture I. Offenses Against Public Justice Outline of Current Lecture II. Prison creditsIII. Good time creditsIV. Work creditsV. Education creditsVI. Parties to a crimea. Principlesb. Accessories VII. American legal history Current Lecture  Prison credits – may reduce the time that you have to do  Good time credits – depends if you’re on a paroleable or non-paroleable offense. when you behave yourself you get more credits served than you actually served- For a paroleable offense = 20 days for every 30 days that you serve incentive to behave yourself. - For non-paroleable offense = 3 days for every 30 days that you serve o Murderers cannot get good time


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